Re: It's Raining Cargo Planes

Originally Posted by captncrzy

Pilot forums seem to think it was a stall.

I've seen speculation that maybe the load wasn't secured properly, so when plane took off it may have shifted to the rear, throwing the weight balance off, pulling the tail down and thus pushing the nose up, thereby causing the stall.

Re: It's Raining Cargo Planes

Originally Posted by TomAz

I've seen speculation that maybe the load wasn't secured properly, so when plane took off it may have shifted to the rear, throwing the weight balance off, pulling the tail down and thus pushing the nose up, thereby causing the stall.

That makes sense. I'll be at an expo with some big pilot bosses this afternoon. I'm going to ask them what they think it was. It's always interesting talking to those guys.

Originally Posted by RandyInHeaven

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Re: It's Raining Cargo Planes

With large aircraft like that carrying such heavy loads, proper weight and balance is literally the difference between safely reaching your destination and falling out of the sky. Like someone said, it sounds like the cargo shifted to the rear of the plane, completly altering the angle of attack necessary to continue a safe climb. The air basically just stopped flowing over the wings, which is why it looked like it was suspended there briefly before tumbling downward. That's easily the most ridiculous fucking stall I've ever seen. Even if they were another thousand feet higher that would probably be impossible to recover from.